Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Bayabas in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Bayabas in Philippines on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.32 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.6637 East, latitude 9.2504 North, depth = 39.32 km. The temblor was detected at 02:47:57 / 2:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/06/16 / 2016-06-12 18:47:57 / June 12, 2016 @ 6:47 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000653i. Event ids that are associated: us2000653i. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 55 km (34 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Lianga (c. 13 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Tago (c. 6 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Aras-asan (c. 5 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lianga, Dapa, Socorro (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 51 km NE of Bayabas, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.6637° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.2504° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39.32 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51km NE of Bayabas, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-06-12 18:47:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-11 15:09:29	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	326	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.418	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	112	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000653i	Id of event.
Event Code	2000653i	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000653i,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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